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Inspecting authority

Inspecting authority, means a person having quali-fications and wide experience in the field of design, manufacture and testing of gas cylinders and recognised by the Chief Controller as authority for inspection and certification of gas cylinder. [Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004, R. 2(xxvii)]...

Jurisdiction of suspicion

Jurisdiction of suspicion, Provision for preventive detention, in itself, is a departure from ordinary norms. It is generally resorted to either in times of war or apprehended internal disorders and disturbances of a serious nature. Its object is to prevent a greater danger to national security and integrity than any claim which could be based upon a right, moral or legal, to individual liberty. It has been aptly described as a 'jurisdiction of suspicion', Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207 (1295): (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172....

National authority

National authority, means the National Disaster Management Authority established under sub-s. (1) of s. 3. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...

stipulated authority

stipulated authority see authority ...

Port authority

Port authority, means any authority administering a port. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986) s. 2(vii)]...

Registering authority

Registering authority, means any authority com-petent under any law for the time being in force to register any company, firm or other body of persons, or any trade mark or design, or to grant a patent, See also Act 17 (7 of 1995), s. 2(h). [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(p)]...

Statutory authority

Statutory authority, means any authority, board, corporation, council, institute, university or any other body corporate, established by or under any Central, State or Provincial Act for the purposes of regulating production or supply of goods or provision of any services or markets therefor or any matter connected therewith or incidental thereto. [Competition Act, 2003 (12 of 2003), s. 2(w)]...

Under the authority of any department of the Central Govt

Under the authority of any department of the Central Govt., the expression 'under the authority of any department of the Central Government' in s. 32(iv) of the Payment of Bonus Act would in ordinary parlance mean that the department is directly responsible for the management of the industrial undertaking, Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh v. Model Mills, AIR 1984 SC 1813 (1819): (1984) Supp SCC 443: (1985) 1 SCR 751....

Vicountiel jurisdiction

Vicountiel jurisdiction, that jurisdiction which belongs to the officers of a county, as sheriffs, commoners, etc....

subject matter jurisdiction

subject matter jurisdiction see jurisdiction ...

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